evenings

English

Etymology

From evening +‎ -s (adverbial suffix). Compare with Dutch avonds, Low German avends, German abends, all “in the evening, evenings”, which are originally adverbial genitives, however.

Noun

evenings

  1. plural of evening

Adverb

evenings (not comparable)

  1. (informal, somewhat dated) In the evening, during the evening.
    • 1845, By Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. :
      He had ordered her not to go out evenings, and warned her that she must never let him catch her in company with a young man, who was paying attention to her belonging to Colonel Lloyd.

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